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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Abortion Politics in American States -- 1. Pennsylvania: The Impact of Party Organization and Religious Lobbying -- 2. Minnesota: Shifting Sands on a ""Challenger"" Beachhead? -- 3. Maryland: A Law Codifying Roe v. Wade -- 4. Louisiana: Religious Politics and the Pro-Life Cause -- 5. Arizona: Pro-Choice Success in a Conservative, Republican State -- 6. North Carolina: One Liberal Law in the South -- 7. Ohio: Steering toward Middle Ground -- 8. Washington: Abortion Policymaking through Initiative

'Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, The Constitution, and Reproductive Politics' by Mark A. Graber is reviewed.

This article reviews selected aspects of recent and contemporary Anglo-American political thought on equality. The focus of analysis is the continuing controversy in the United States between neoconservatives and egalitarians concerning the definition of basic equality, the meaning of equality of opportunity, and the proper policies neces sary to guarantee to all citizens equal opportunity for occupational attainment. An issue central to this debate is whether equality of opportunity is consistent with treating diferent individuals in different ways. In three interrelated sections, the definition of equality-as-similarity and the various meanings of the derivative equal opportunity doctrine are considered, and the neoconservative critique of egalitarian public policies is discussed together with egalitarian counter arguments. The concluding section contains an evaluation of neoconservative and egalitarian arguments. A central idea which emerges from this survey of contemporary thought about equality is that equal provision is not identical provision, and that to treat people as equals may at times require that we treat them differently.

From the beginning, the Catholic Worker movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, has challenged the cherished beliefs of American citizens, many of whom have been more than willing to accommodate religious faith and social concerns to the economic imperatives of American capitalist society. Whether criticizing child labor, the exploitation of blacks, and anti-Semitism during the thirties or protesting the treatment of migrant workers, the Vietnamese War, and the nuclear arms race in the sixties and seventies, the Catholic Worker has consistently adopted controversial positions on contemporary social issues and has challenged Americans to think through the implications ofpublic policy.